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I'm taking the B2 Czech exam in May and I was wondering if anybody has taken it or taught a course on it and could give me some advice?
I've looked through a practise test and I think writing will be the toughest for me, are there any common mistakes that foreigners and Czechs make in regards to grammar in spisovná čeština?
1. For example, which is grammatically correct?
vzal by si si ji....
vzal bys si ji....
vzal by jsi si ji...
vzal by sis ji....
In spoken Czech I would say naturally either the 2nd or the 4th one but I don't know the officially correct way.

2. Also for example is myslejí or myslí spisovná? I´d guess myslejí is spisovná? Is this the same for all these 3rd person plural forms? E.g. Vědí, mluvějí? I only use the í form when speaking.

My writing is very informal so I´m a bit worried about transorming it within 5 weeks.

Ad 1. Vzal by sis ji is the only correct expression (spisovný výraz).
Ad 2. Oni myslí is correct. (It always helps if you learn the imperative of the appropriate verb. If it is short, e.g. mysli or mluv, then the 3rd person form will be short too. If it is long, e.g. dělej, the 3rd person plural will be long as well - dělají.) Mluvějí, myslejí is a colloquial form, quite common in the south of Bohemia.
N.B. This is just a very simplified explanation - the system of Czech verbs conjugation is much more complex with lots of exceptions, many of them remaining unknown even to native speakers ).

Spadl jsem is correct; short version applies to most cases, however the past for usnout is usnul, not usl!
Kdybychom (bychom) and kdybyste (byste) are correct.

The pronouns - well, it is a hard nut to crack; again, it helps to learn the appropriate cases for prepositions (e.g. o is always connected with locative = o mně) as well as the second person declensions, as it avoids the problem of the pronunciation trap; mě and mně sound the same, while tě and tobě show the right case. Thus, if you know that the preposition pro is connected with accusative, you will choose mě or mne, never mně (this is used with dative or locative only).
Jej is used with inanimative masculine nouns only (cf. Mám nový mobil; koupil jsem jej velmi levně. Mám nového psa, koupil jsem ho velmi levně).

Thanks again
That's all very useful to know.
I learned which cases go with which preposition a long time ago but I never knew which spelling of mě, mne, mně goes with what because, as you said, they sound the same in spoken Czech.

I guess from the lack of a reply that nobody here has taken the B2 exam?

Generally I'm fine with common adverbs but I have a problem when there are 2 options and I really don't know the difference.

For example -
Brzy or brzo
Hloboce or hluboko
Is there some rule for this difference? I always thought brzo was like soon and brzy like early but a Czech used brzy the other day when he meant soon so now I'm confused. I know there are others like this but can't think of them off the top of my head so any other examples would be great.

Generally I'm fine with common adverbs but I have a problem when there are 2 options and I really don't know the difference.

For example - Brzy or brzoHloboce or hluboko Is there some rule for this difference? I always thought brzo was like soon and brzy like early but a Czech used brzy the other day when he meant soon so now I'm confused. I know there are others like this but can't think of them off the top of my head so any other examples would be great.

Thanks again in advance

When there is a pair of adverbs, one ending in "e" and the other ending in "o" then the one ending in "e" is usually the "-ly" variant. Some examples will make this clearer:

Splog wrote:When there is a pair of adverbs, one ending in "e/ě" and the other ending in "o" then the one ending in "e" is usually the "-ly" variant.

Very true, the -e/ě variant is typically an adverb of manner (answer to a how question) and it is a "pure-blooded" adverb. It is strictly used as adverbial.

The -o variant, on the other hand, is of adjectival nature. It is closely related to the neuter nominal (= short-form) adjectives (and therefore never used with soft adjectives of model jarní!) or to the more or less identical neuter noun model město. This means that the -o variant could be declined and used in place of a noun! In modern Czech the declined forms are hardly used, but there is one important exception — the -o variant in a declined form is commonly combined with prepositions. This combination is sometimes treated as two separate words, but the most frequent ones are treated as one single word.

A particular prepositional combination could bear the same (or similar) meaning as the -e/ě variant (e.g. hluboce could be sometimes interchangeable with zhluboka).

Sometimes, the -o variant is used only as a regular noun (dobro, zlo) and for the adverbial meaning only the -e/ě variant is used (dobře, zle).

Also, a diminutive could be sometimes formed from the -o variant (brzo -> brzičko, pomalu -> pomaličku).

For adjectives denoting nationalities (or some other communities) ending in -ký, the corresponding -ko variant is understood to be a noun for the corresponding country (region, place) and is capitalized. It is understood this way even if the particular noun is not in use (e.g. Anglicko). In this case the -e/ě variant is not used at all and is replaced with the -ky variant (česky, anglicky, německy). This adverbial form is used practically only for languages, for the other meanings we turn back to the uncapitalized -o variant in combination with the preposition po (e.g. Manželství po italsku = Marriage Italian-Style).
This -ky variant penetrated even to some other adverbs and exists as an alternative to the original variant (e.g. brzo vs. brzy <- brzky), sometimes the original variant was ousted almost completely (hezce vs. hezky).

Thanks a lot for these tips and explanations. It's so much clearer to me now.
I still can't get my head round when I would use 'dalece' and 'dlouze' though instead of daleko and dlouho, I always use the latter. Maybe I'm being dumb but I can't quite see how you can do something in a far manner or long manner. Could 'dlouze' possibly be translated as something like 'long windedly'?
Eg. Psal to dlouho vs psal to dlouze
He was writing it a long time vs he was writing it in long winded way.
??
Or something like that?
Thanks again for the valuable info.